Henri Matisse

Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired directly from the artist in June 1938)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above on 16 September 1959)

Torcuato di Tella Foundation, Buenos Aires (acquired from the above on 15 March 1960)

Christie’s, London, 27 June 1972, lot 24 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection

Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1987, lot 78 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Exposition Henri Matisse, 1938, no. 28

Santa Fe, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes "Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez", 1952

Buenos Aires, Hotel Provincial, 1961

Buenos Aires, Museo de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Colección Torcuato di Tella, 1963, n.p. (titled El Brazo)

Buenos Aires, Museo de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Colección Torcuato di Tella, 1964

Buenos Aires, Asociación Cultural Santo Domingo de Guzmán, 1964

Buenos Aires, Museo de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Colección Torcuato di Tella, 1967

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, 1992-93, pl. 322, p. 362; p. 392, illustrated in color

Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., p. 164; p. 165, illustrated in color; pp. 166-67, illustrations of the work in progress

Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, 1999, no. 38, fig. 108, illustrated in color; pp. 112 and 114; p. 119, illustrated in color; p. 258 

Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Henri Matisse—Figure, Farbe, Raum, 2005-06, no. 162, p. 246, illustrated in color; p. 370

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Matisse: Paires et séries, 2012, p. 179, illustrated in color; p. 278

Kunsthaus Zürich, Matisse – Metamorphosis, 2019, no. 59, p. 133, illustrated in color; p. 217

Christian Zervos, ed., Cahiers d’Art, nos. 1-4, 1939, p. 78, illustrated

Gyorgy Kepes, ed., Sign, Image, Symbol, New York, 1966, fig. 15, p. 160, illustrated

Pierre Schneider, Matisse, New York, 1984, p. 401, illustrated in color

Lydia Delectorskaya, With apparent ease…Henri Matisse, Paintings from 1935-1939, Paris, 1988, p. 252, illustrated (in initial states); p. 253, illustrated in color (with incorrect dimensions)

Gilles Néret, Matisse, Paris, Casterman, 1991, no. 253, p. 168, illustrated

Walter Guadagnini, Matisse, Milan, 1993, p. 212, illustrated in color; p. 213

Exh. Cat., Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Matisse: 1917-1941, 2009, no. 65, p. 151, illustrated in color; p. 233

René Percheron and Christian Brouder, Matisse, de la couleur à l’architecture, Paris, 2005, no. 387, p. 358, illustrated in color